With James Naughtie and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
The last part of Roy Hattersley 's autobiography. Why John Major hissed at Hattersley: "You think you're funny, I think you're pathetic." Producer Jane Ray
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Stephen Fry and scientists Oliver Sacks , Susan Blackmore and Stephen Jay Gould. Producer Olivia Seligman
The news from exactly 50 years ago. Producer Laura Craig Gray
Series editor Gaynor Vaughan Jones
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Judy Merry reassesses the life of Selina Cooper , who died 50 years ago today. Serial:
The Witch of Exmoorby Margaret Drabble. Eileen Atkins reads the llth of 13 extracts, abridged by Doreen Estall. Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
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With Vincent Duggleby. Producer Tim Bowler
With Mark Whittaker.
Sue MacGregor tests
Christopher Cook , Graham Fawcett. Jane Glover and Philippa Gregory. Producer Gillian Hush
With Sheena MacDonald.
Repeated from Friday
Leslie Charteris 's square-jawed hero pursues blondes, baddies and boodle in the Europe of the 1930s. with Geoffrey Whitehead , Jonathan Keeble , Joshua Towb and David Timson Dramatised by Neville Teller
Director Matthew Walters Repeat
Laurie Taylor tunes into some office gossip: is it time-wasting or the key to a cohesive work place?
Lynne Walker reads a new biography of the great choreographer Sir
Frederick Ashton and reviews dance company "Scorched Earth". Producer Hilary Dunn
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Katie Campbell. A woman is disturbed by strange sounds from the flat next door. Reader Barbara Barnes. Producer Claire Grove
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Jon Sopel.
Humphrey Lyttelton returns with the antidote to panel games. Tim Brooke -Taylor, Graeme Garden , Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton are at the Liverpool Playhouse. Colin Sell plays the piano. Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm
Joe pays his respects.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Repeated from Friday
By Carson McCullers. Adapted for radio by Annie Caulfield. Frankie Addams is twelve and five-sixths years old, and desperate to belong. with Daniel Marinker. Teresa Gallagher , Michael John Paliotti , Tyler Williams ,
Katherine Lollie and Rebecca Tennis. Music composed and performed by Martin Winter Director Chris Wallace
The last in a series of programmes exploring how certain people, places or things have assumed iconic status in Ireland.
5: Our Lady. The intense relationship between the Irish nation and the Virgin Mary.
Producer Owen McFadden
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Robin Lustig.
By Elaine Feinstein. The sequel to
DH Lawrence's novel finds the famous lovers running away to Tuscany. Part 1, read by Amanda Root. Producer Rosemary Watts
By E Annie Proulx. Abridged in ten episodes by Pat McLoughlin.
1: A newspaperman seems destined for a hopeless, hapless life - until his no-good wife gets her just deserts. Read by William Hurt. Producer Sheila Fox
